{"id":37962,"date":"2013-04-24T01:40:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T01:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christ_church_alexandria_virginia_celebrates_first_same-gender_blessing\/"},"modified":"2013-04-24T01:40:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T01:40:13","slug":"christ_church_alexandria_virginia_celebrates_first_same-gender_blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37962","title":{"rendered":"Christ Church Alexandria, Virginia, Celebrates First Same-Gender Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christ Church, the parish home of George Washington, celebrated its first same-gender blessing April 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an Episcopal faith community, we witnessed and asked God&#8217;s blessings upon the lifelong commitment Melissa Capers and Brunilda Hernandez have made to one another,&#8221; said the Rev. Ann Gillespie, Christ Church senior associate rector who officiated at the service. &#8220;This is a significant and joyful event, not just in the life of Melissa and Bruni, but in the life of our church. As a congregation, we are taking a historic and faithful step closer to the inclusive, abundant, generous outpouring of God&#8217;s kingdom.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldtownalexandria.patch.com\/articles\/christ-church-celebrates-first-same-gender-blessing\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ Church, the parish home of George Washington, celebrated its first same-gender blessing April 21. \u201cAs an Episcopal faith community, we witnessed and asked God&#8217;s blessings upon the lifelong commitment Melissa Capers and Brunilda Hernandez have made to one another,&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37962\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,66,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}